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Interloper : Lessons from Resistance in the Field by Michel Anteby (2024, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691255377

ISBN-139780691255378

eBay Product ID (ePID)15062639450

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameInterloper : Lessons from Resistance in the Field

Publication Year2024

SubjectMethodology, Sociology / General, Research, Sociology / Social Theory

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichel Anteby

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width7.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2023-036993

Reviews"Anteby is a great storyteller. . . . He offers many lively examples of his trials and tribulations in accessing various fields in his ethnographic projects, punctuated by self-deprecating comments and humor. . . . Exemplifying this move between a personal, local, historically bound experience and the general insights it may yield, Anteby's [ The Interloper ] attests to the ethnographic tradition at its best." ---Tammar B. Zilber, Administrative Science Quarterly, "Wide-ranging. . . . [D]efensiveness can, of course, be frustrating for researchers. What The Interloper demonstrates is that it can also offer a vital tool for uncovering the very things people most want to keep hidden." ---Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education, "[W]ide-ranging. . . . [D]efensiveness can, of course, be frustrating for researchers. What The Interloper demonstrates is that it can also offer a vital tool for uncovering the very things people most want to keep hidden." ---Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal302

SynopsisA practical and theoretical guide for field researchers struggling with access Resistance is the bane of all field researchers, who are often viewed as interlopers when they enter a community and start asking questions. People obstruct investigations and hide evidence. They shelve complaints, silence dissent, and even forget their own past and deny having done so. How can we learn about a community when its members resist so strongly? The answer is that the resistance itself is sometimes the key.Michel Anteby explains how community members often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles. He draws insights from diverse stories of resistance by uncooperative participants--from Nazi rocket scientists and Harvard professors to Disney union busters and people who secure cadavers for medical school dissection--to reveal how field resistance manifests itself and how researchers can learn from it. He argues that many forms of resistance are retrospectively telling, and that these forms are the routine products, not by-products, of the field. That means that resistance mechanisms are not only indicative of something else happening; instead, they often are the very data points that can shed light on how participants make sense of their worlds.An essential guide for ethnographers, sociologists, and all field researchers seeking access, The Interloper shares practical and theoretical insights into the value of having the door slammed in your face., A practical and theoretical guide for field researchers struggling with access Resistance is the bane of all field researchers, who are often viewed as interlopers when they enter a community and start asking questions. People obstruct investigations and hide evidence. They shelve complaints, silence dissent, and even forget their own past and deny having done so. How can we learn about a community when its members resist so strongly? The answer is that the resistance itself is sometimes the key. Michel Anteby explains how community members often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles. He draws insights from diverse stories of resistance by uncooperative participants--from Nazi rocket scientists and Harvard professors to Disney union busters and people who secure cadavers for medical school dissection--to reveal how field resistance manifests itself and how researchers can learn from it. He argues that many forms of resistance are retrospectively telling, and that these forms are the routine products, not by-products, of the field. That means that resistance mechanisms are not only indicative of something else happening; instead, they often are the very data points that can shed light on how participants make sense of their worlds. An essential guide for ethnographers, sociologists, and all field researchers seeking access, The Interloper shares practical and theoretical insights into the value of having the door slammed in your face.

LC Classification NumberHM251.A7522 2024